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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples o...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...ises and piece by piece, arable land is consigned to industrial use or for housing estates. The fertile irrigated land on the edges of the city gradua... ... piece by piece, arable land is consigned to industrial use or for housing estates. The fertile irrigated land on the edges of the city gradually beco... ... building entrepreneurs, who in the years of economic growth subcontracted housing construction in nearby villages. In Ban Srii Muod Klao, too, the ne... ... on the edge of the Ban Mae Kong Tai field, yet another estate of terraced housing has been built, and is standing empty like so many other estates co... ... terraced housing has been built, and is standing empty like so many other estates constructed in the crazy years of economic boom. The latest road bu... ...roduction of vegetables, spices and fruit is concentrated on large farming estates in Thailand, too. Since the village residents have no land of their...

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...al Report Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies APEC Study ... ... August 2011 Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies ii ... ...05-0 APEC#211-SO-01.5 Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iii Acknowledgements The completion of... ...l Markets Stability in APEC Economies v offshore funds, high household debt, and high housing prices. Large short term capital inflows as well as na... ...nce of that than the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, which had its origins in US housing market, but ended up hitting other APEC economy market... ...cted to drop slightly to 8.9 percent in 2011 (based on IMF estimates), high leveraged housing sector, anemic economic growth which is projected to h... ...s pool into common funds money received from the general public, or held on behalf of estates or under powers of attorney. Funds are usually investe... ...and Opportunities for Financial Service in Indonesia, Report Prepared for the City of London Corporation, Catham House, London, UK, Accessed August ... ...a, Centre for Strategic and International Studies and Overseas Development Institute, London, UK. United Nations Conference on Trade and Developme...

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.... (32.) hapter 4 : The Intangible Consciousness. (38.) hapter 5 : Dancing in Higher Space. (46.) hapter 6 : Hitching a Ride on a Reality. (63.) ha... ...ality. (63.) hapter 7 : Realities Surfing the Quantum hapter 8 : Parking in Hilbert’s Space. (94.) hapter 9 : The Flow of Entropy. (108.) hapter ... ...ac with only a cat for a friend. To address such issues, all the ideas in this book are buil from relativity to psychology and M-Theory to quant... ...rld around us, the world of technology, the world of big business, cities, housing estates, possessions, money to finance these things. This is the... ...nd us, the world of technology, the world of big business, cities, housing estates, possessions, money to finance these things. This is the superfi... ...eat principle, to the one nature being and not being.” University of London physicist David Bohm suggested that the universe is a hologram, e...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...hat, unless the Universe is Actually Infinite. The idea of a finite Universe housing infinite permutations of everything; is like trying to stuff an... ...hey only killed, and used, and traveled through… Barons of their huge landed estates… becoming incensed and outraged that any Baron or King, or Chi... ... preserve, fix, what they owned… forever. Not to mention finding room for it, housing it, protecting it from the elements, caring for it, and spendi... ...d oligarchy of three huge corporations. What is the result today? Expensive housing. The epidemic of poor people unable to afford any kind of hous... ...heir filthy rich Royal family completely and their countless holdings of rich estates and investments. But now the English Royal family has been for... ...ing mobs that traveled around the entire Nation, stealing food from the great estates of the Nobles. Or each estate of the Aristocratic elite; hirin...

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...Excerpt: On a Moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away,...

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...Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination. Every one in the house ran together to the spot whence the cries proceeded, namely, the lower court, where t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. GRISLY, GRISELL, orThe Laidly Lady of Whitbernthe Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... had married Anne Beauchamp, and was in her right Earl of Warwick, and had estates larger even than those of his father. He had not, how- ever, as yet... ...isly Grisell Indeed, Lord Salisbury’s messenger reported the Country about London to be in so disturbed a state that it was no wonder that the Lady of... ...d not always be with the suf- ferer, nor could she carry such a patient to London, whither her lord was summoned to support his brother-in-law, the Du... ...cort, pilgrim, merchant or other, with whom Grisell might safely travel to London, and if the Earl and Countess were not there, some responsible perso... ...he animals invisible all but their heads and tails under their magnificent housings, while the knights seemed to be pillars of radiance. Yet even more... ...ter the late reign of misrule, and so did the knight and dame govern their estates that for long years the time of ‘Grisly Grisell’ was remembered as ...

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...nts and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms o...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they ...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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... But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had expended pounds English for the privilege of making the journey in this very train....

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...anner. These were the times when churches were built and the boundaries of estates became those of parishes. The manor of Merdon, which occupied the w... ...tchen, through a wooded slope known as Otterbourne Park. The boundaries of estates fixed those of parishes, and Otterbourne was curiously long and nar... ...sgraceful life, obtained the appointment to the see, by alienating various estates to the Seymour family, and Merdon was resumed by the Crown. It was ... ...ccording to ancient usage, to perform the customary service of reaping and housing his crops: (1) The days employed in this service were called Haydob... ...ivery cupboard capable of containing two men. Swithun Welles went later to London and took a house in Holborn, where T opcliffe the priest-catcher bro... ...rote to Mr. Maijor. For my very worthy friend, Richard Mayor, Esq.: These. London, 12th February 1648. Sir—I received some intimations formerly, and b...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the ...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Evan Harrington by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... ‘I have written to Mr. Goren, who was my husband’s fel- low-apprentice in London, my lady; and he is willing to in- struct him in cutting, and measur... ...e widow, the Rostral. She’s thirty, certainly; but she possesses millions! Estates all over the king- dom, and the sweetest creature. But, no. Evan wo... ...WAS THE EVENING of the second day since the arrival of the black letter in London from Lymport, and the wife of the brewer and the wife of the Major s... ...ned him the name he went by. When her neighbours remonstrated with her for housing a reprobate, Mrs. Mel would say: ‘Dandy is well-fed and well- physi... ...hat little Jane F—— was there—not improved. ‘Pray, be firm about T orquay. Estates mortgaged, but hopes of saving a remnant of the property. Third son... ...one has disturbed him in the other world. Can it be so? It is not money or estates we took at all, dearest! And these excellent 192 Evan Harrington y...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...The late Hugh Price Hughes, an eminent Methodist divine, once organized in London a conference of respectable men 10 Shaw to consider the subject. No... ...ference did not seem to mind. They were content to have the whole national housing problem treated on a basis of one room for two people. That was the... ... discreetly. THE GENERAL. Whats the matter? MRS BRIDGENORTH. Reginald’s in London, and wants to come to the wedding. THE GENERAL [stupended] Well, das... ...preciated. I was made an hon- orary member of two of the smartest clubs in London when the truth came out. THE GENERAL. Well, sir, those clubs consist... ...me to be a Com- munist. HOTCHKISS. And you believe that many of our landed estates were stolen from the Church by Henry the eighth? SOAMES. I do not m...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...e in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke 16 Book I — Miss Brooke disliked London. Away from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James said... ... resist the rush of everything that is a little better than common towards London. Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer ... ...from Sir James Chettam, offering to Mr. Garth the management of the family estates at Freshitt and elsewhere, and adding that Sir James had been reque... ...t he himself was particularly de sirous of seeing the Freshitt and Tipton estates under the same management, and he hoped to be able to show that the... ... the treasure trove?” said Mr. Farebrother. “I’m going to be agent for two estates, Freshitt and Tipton; and perhaps for a pretty little bit of land i... ...ut the way in which the health of the poor was affected by their miserable housing.” “Yes, indeed,” said Dorothea, brightening. “I shall be quite grat...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...r sister; spoke of a house in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke disliked London. A way from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James sai... ... resist the rush of everything that is a little better than common towards London. Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer... ...from Sir James Chettam, offering to Mr. Garth the management of the family estates at Freshitt and elsewhere, and adding that Sir James had been reque... ...hat he himself was particularly desirous of seeing the Freshitt and Tipton estates under the same man- agement, and he hoped to be able to show that t... ... the treasure-trove?” said Mr. Farebrother. “I’m going to be agent for two estates, Freshitt and Tipton; and perhaps for a pretty little bit of land i... ... the way in which the health of the poor was affected by their mis- erable housing.” “Y es, indeed,” said Dorothea, brightening. “I shall be quite gra...

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of whom, including both the ruling and the younger branches, not a few had estates on the Rhine and Main, and in the intermediate country, and who at ... ... examples of misdeeds punished, “Miss Sarah Sampson,” and “The Merchant of London,” were very ener- getically cited on my part: but, on the other hand... ...ir horses. The stately, well-trained steeds were covered with richly laced housings, and ornamented in every way. The Elector Emeric Joseph, a handsom...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...NE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRINCE, so Genoa and Lucca are now just fam- ily estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this ... ... just effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and handsome yo... ...low diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. Can you fancy the f... ...t provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole where his regi- ment w... ... everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, acquiring a trotter of his o... ...the French,” thought Princess Mary. “I will offer them monthly rations and housing at our Moscow estate. I am sure Andrew would do even more in my pla...